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The campaign of Republican Sen. Jim Nielsen of Gerber, the Tehama County GOP and the campaign for losing Assembly candidate Bob Williams also agreed to $23,000 in fines for funneling money for campaign ads through the county party.
Sanders' endorsement is noteworthy because about 90 percent of the NNU's members are women, and it comes as the Democratic presidential field has been actively courting labor unions.
A young police K9 somehow got out of his yard overnight, prompting an hours-long search Sunday morning.
The Forest Service says a second male firefighter who was also injured in the incident has been treated and released from a nearby hospital.
Authorities say a magnitude 3.3 earthquake has rattled the San Francisco Bay Area, but no injuries or property damage is reported.
A San Francisco resident has become the first woman to swim the 30-mile stretch from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Police have arrested the mother of a newborn baby that was abandoned in a stroller on a Los Angeles street.
James Schoenfeld, 63, was freed from the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo after Gov. Jerry Brown allowed the parole to go ahead a week ago, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton said.
Authorities say the man was shot when he stopped and reached for what appeared to be a gun tucked in his waistband.
A federal judge in April ordered the state to provide the surgery, which had been scheduled for July. It was delayed after the state appealed.
A Northern California police officer who was caught on video drawing his gun on a man who was not accused of a crime has been placed on temporary paid administrative leave.
Montebello police are looking for a known Santeria priest who has been accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl during what he said was a healing ritual.
Ford had just taken off from Santa Monica Airport on March 5 when he reported engine failure at an altitude of 1,100 feet and requested an immediate return.
Police are seeking the public's help in identifying a young man who took down an American flag that was flying outside a Long Beach residence and burned it in the street.
The U.S. Coast Guard based in Northern California seized 12,000 pounds of cocaine from a vessel in the Eastern Pacific in the largest bust of its kind in guard history.
